Our Lady of the Isles

Our Lady of the Isles (Gaelic: Eilean nan thighearna Bana ) is a nine-meter high statue of Mary on the Scottish Hebridean island of South Uist. It is deposited in the northern part of the island on the slopes of Rueval close to the A865. From the latter, they can be reached by a paved walkway. The statue was inducted into the Scottish monument list in the B category in 2007.

The sculpture was created 1955-1957 by Hew Lorimer, son of architect and designer Sir Robert Lorimer, of white granite. John Morrison, a local clergyman, was funded by the islanders statue in order. On August 15, 1958 she blessed Bishop Kenneth Grant a finally. The sculpture depicts a standing Madonna holding the infant Jesus in shoulder height. The Child Jesus raises this blessing his right hand while the left rests on the crowned head of the Madonna. Both figures are dressed in simple robes indicated. The Madonna has the typical facial features of an island resident and one of Lorimer's most highly regarded works of art.

Isolated location of the statue

Walk to the statue

For more information

• Commons: Our Lady of the Isles - collection of images, videos and audio files
• Entry of the Royal Society of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ( English)
• Information of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll & the Isles - (English)
• G. Wylie: The Hebrides, Collins, 1978, ISBN 0-004-11156-7.